as my dates are unflexible, i had booked already a guide and porter for the trip.
current is basis flight frm kathmandu to lukla 19 oct., and back frm Lukla to Kathmandu 31st oct. in between hopefully able to reach base camp. i am an ok hiker, relatively fit. i speak English fluently, and conversational cantonese / Mandarin / German. idea is to have company on a hike, and share the guide and porter's cost.
if you are interested to join, let's have a chat.
Sorry for de delayed response. Unfortunately my dates are pretty set, I could potentially leave earlier as I will already be in Nepal, but I dont know how flexible your dates are?
My dates are 19oct – 2nov. I am also looking to share a guide and porter on a trip to EBC. My name is Mariel, I'm 26 and a student from the Netherlands. I speak fluent English and Dutch and conversational French. I would love chat about possibly combining our treks!
Do you have the 3 passes trek in mind? This is an addition to EBC…you would likely need a few extra days to do that. If so, I wouldn't mind joining you. Let me know!
I'm a chinese 49-yr-old male engineer from Malaysia. Would like to join you .Your (and Mariel) EBC trek dates fit me well. I speak fluent English & Malay. Some Cantonese. Sharing a guide and porter is great. Tentatative return International flight on 2 Nov. If no Lukla flight delays, plan a microlight flight at Pokhara on 1-Nov.
Yes, let's have a chat!
I am also interested in doing EBC. Wing, did you already find some people to hike with, and which guide/porter are you using? What is the cost, itinerary and dates?


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50 Cent changed his mind and will be continuing the series.
Big news from 50 Cent today. A few weeks ago, the executive producer of Power informed us all that the show would be coming to an end this summer. The next season of Power would apparently be the last with the producers intending on branching out into many different spin-off series. If you've been complaining about the end of an era, you're likely to be extremely satisfied by the following news. If Curtis Jackson is to be believed (and he works backstage on the show so, why wouldn't his take be legitimate?) then Power is not going to close in August.
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The show is undoubtedly coming to an end soon but according to Fif, this summer will not be the last of the show. He took to social media to unveil his plans to continue the major storylines in a later season, revealing that the series is not actually ending right now. "I Changed my mind POWER is not going to be over after season 6," said the producer in his post. "This shit is to good."
With the news being broken by 50 Cent, do you think they came up with some pretty crazy plot points in the writer's room? What could have changed Courtney A. Kemp's decision to close out with Season 6?
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New Release: TWO 5 Stars for Destined Prey (Wild Ones #1) by Bailey Bradford (AUTHOR INTERVIEW) #MM #Romance #FundRaiser
Title: Destined Prey (Wild Ones #1)
Author Name & Publisher: Bailey Bradford (Rainbow Ninja Press)
Publication Date & Length: December 18, 2015 – 43,000 Words
This book was written as a fundraiser for Peyton Hollingsworth, a family friend of Bailey's who has been diagnosed with cancer.
*All proceeds and royalties from this book will be donated to help pay the medical bills for Peyton Hollingsworth.
While he is currently being treated at St. Jude's for Ewing's Sarcoma, and treatment there is free, there are accumulated bills from his treatment and diagnosis before being sent to St. Jude's.
About Peyton:
Peyton is a funny, loveable 10-year-old boy. He loves playing outside, riding go-karts, and Batman.
This morning we found out he has cancer.
Peyton's mom, Cherri, took him to the hospital yesterday for trouble breathing. They were told he had a collapsed lung. After testing and labwork Cherri was told this morning (4/21/2015) that Peyton has a mass in his lung, back, and its spreading. They are now at St Judes waiting for the biopsy to take place.
I am a family friend who is very close to Peyton's family. Any and all donations made will go towards travel, medical, and housing expenses so that his family can stay close. His parents, Dave and Cherri, will most likely be missing work to stay with Peyton.
I will keep updating this as we get more information. We should know more within a few days, but I wanted to go ahead and get a jump start on this, so that we can help his family finincially, so this will be one less thing that they have to stress about.
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Thank you for your thoughts and prayers and donations.
All Jack Tucker wanted was to come home for a little while and try to figure out where his life had gone wrong. Moving from Wyoming to New York hadn't turned out the way he'd thought it would, and a bad breakup leaves him bruised in more than just the emotional sense.
He doesn't expect to be glad he's back on the Double T Ranch with his brother, Rhett, and he sure doesn't expect to find the place crawling with coywolves, wolves, and coyotes. There seems to be some kind of animal-warfare going on, and he and Rhett are caught in the middle of it.
Coywolves—the hybrid of wolves and coyotes, hated by both, and more predatory than either. Add in the fact that all the battling species are shifters, and there's bound to be trouble.
Ben Akers is part of his brother's pack. The only coywolf shifters in existence, they find themselves under constant attack from wolf and coyote packs determined to make the Akers pack extinct. But coywolves don't die out so easy, and when Ben's life takes a surprising turn in the form of one sexy human named Jack Tucker, they're both in for surprises, danger, and, if Destiny rules, an abiding love that most people—and shifters—only dream of.
OMG I can not even put into words how much I loved this book! It was just so damn good!
Jack goes back to his family ranch that his brother is running after escaping a horrible relationship. Ben is a Coywolf shifter who first sees Jack on his ranch during a turf war with other shifters and is instantly attracted to Jack.
There was so much steam and action in this book I could not put it down once I started reading it. I loved the way Bailey Bradford wrote these shifters and this story! Plus there was Jack and Rhett who is Jack's older brother. Loved these two characters too!
Now I can not wait for the next book in this series!!! I can't say how much I hope it is the two older brothers. Because the chemistry between these two men was off the charts and I cant wait to see these two men get their HEA.
So all together I really loved this book and would 100% recommend this book!
I loved this book. It had some unique concepts that I hadn't read before in shifter stories.
It's love at first sight for the main characters, but they didn't know that. They didn't understand the pull that they were experiencing. The shifters here don't know the details of mating. I loved this tension and confusion that they experienced.
Coywolves. The author had a brilliant idea of creating this blending of coyotes and wolves. That was brilliant. Then to make them better than those other species was great. In this story the minorities are superior.
The plot line was fantastic and so believable. The main characters see each other from afar and feel the pull but don't understand it and then kind of fight it, at least one of them does, and have to be drawn into the shifter world where he comes fighting and screaming, sort of, then finally accepts it. Well that's the first half of the book. The action scenes were really good with a surprise for y'all at the end. I can't wait for the second book.
I highly recommend this book. You won't be disappointed. The characters are believable, the plot line flows very well, the action scenes are great, it's just the right length, and on and on. I could go on but I would spoil it for you. Grab this book.
~Ariel
Jack Tucker watched his brother retrieve the rifle from the gun cabinet in the office. "Um. Rhett? What're you doing?"
Rhett didn't even glance back at him as he loaded the gun. "What does it look like I'm doing? You been living in the city so long you forgot how a Wyoming rancher lives?" Then he did look over his shoulder at Jack, and Jack kind of wished he hadn't.
He hated seeing that judgment in his brother's eyes, and knowing he'd never be good enough for Rhett, never be the man his brother was. "No," Jack mumbled, "I didn't forget."
Rhett sighed and turned until he faced Jack. "Look, that was uncalled for. I'm… I'm sorry, okay?"
Jack was so startled by the apology that he gulped and couldn't think of a word to say.
Rhett grimaced. "Yeah. Well, okay. Gotta check on some tracks Eddie said he found leading from his property to ours. I'll be back in a few hours." He left, striding from the room without seeming to hesitate.
Jack groaned and closed his eyes. Of course Rhett didn't hesitate—he never had. Rhett always knew what to do, and how to do it, and who he was, and that he was right… Except, he apologized to me, and it screwed my head right up.
"Worse than it already is," he muttered. Jack couldn't stop himself from touching his left side, where his bruised ribs throbbed as the pain meds wore off. He was lucky, very lucky, that Rhett hadn't pushed him on the accident that had sent Jack running home from New York, and possibly into the unemployment line. His boss hadn't been happy with Jack taking off, even with a medical note as an excuse. Jack hadn't told Rhett much about any of that. As far as Rhett knew, Jack had fallen down some icy steps, and that was all he was going to ever know about the incident.
Jack replayed his brother's apology in his head and somehow it mingled in with Alex's. Cold fear trickled down Jack's spine and his gut cramped hard enough to make him worry about the dinner he'd just eaten.
After several minutes of trying to calm himself down, Jack stood and left. He'd wanted to sit and talk with Rhett about finances and try to decide if he should offer to let Rhett buy him out. Jack wasn't made to be a rancher. He wasn't made to be a New Yorker, either.
Jack didn't know what he was supposed to do in life, and at the age of twenty-seven, he kind of thought he should have an inkling.
His cell phone was ringing when he stepped into his bedroom. Without looking, he knew it was Alex calling. "Who else would it be?" he huffed. It wasn't like he had any friends left.
Rather than check to see how many times Alex had called and how many texts he'd sent, Jack turned the phone off, then stuck it in the nightstand. He eased himself onto the bed, then took a couple of prescription pain meds and washed them down with the rest of the water he'd brought in earlier.
The glass was old and familiar, and he felt a pang of regret as he looked it over after he set it down. Green glass, nothing special about it, yet he remembered so much as he stared.
He could see his mom in the kitchen, fixing a pitcher of tea, talking to him, and listening as he told her about his day at school or the chores he'd had to do around the ranch. She'd always been so kind and understanding, Jack had to believe she'd have been okay with him being gay. He'd spent many afternoons in the kitchen, helping her prepare meals or just basking in her presence. Losing her had almost broken him.
For a few more minutes, he let his mind go back to happy childhood days. His dad wasn't in nearly as many of those good memories, but Chauncey Tucker hadn't been a bad man. His dad had been more like Rhett—stoic, focused on the ranch and less on the people around him.
Jack ran one finger around the rim of the glass. He was surprised, really, that there were any of the old things left.
The sound of gunshot startled him so badly he jerked and nearly sent the glass flying.
"Shit!" He winced as he pushed it back, then stood as quickly as he could manage.
Another shot rang out, then a third, and fear quickly overtook every other sensation he'd felt until then.
Rhett had always been an ace shot. If he'd had to use three bullets, then there was something bad outside—a bear or a whole pack of wolves.
Jack didn't like guns, but he went and got one from the gun cabinet anyway. He loaded it as he walked to the front door, and hoped like hell Rhett wasn't hurt.
As soon as he stepped outside, the fine hairs at his nape seemed to stand up and vibrate, like some kind of primitive survival instinct warning alert system. Jack froze, his back to the door as his heart slammed hard against his ribs.
Another shot sounded, and it jolted Jack into action. "Rhett! Rhett!" He rushed down the steps and toward the direction the shots had come from. "Rhett! Are you okay?"
When Rhett didn't immediately answer, Jack ran, careless with the gun, aware of that but unable to make himself do anything other than find his brother as soon as possible.
"Rhett!" He stumbled over something on the ground and almost fell before he managed to flail enough to keep himself upright.
Pain tore down his injured side, but he ignored it as he called out for his brother yet again. He cursed himself for not thinking to grab a flashlight. The sky was overcast and there was no moonlight to assist him in his search, and once he was past the barns there was no light coming from the house or other structures, either.
Jack realized that the cattle in the closest field were making enough noise to drown out his voice or Rhett's, making it impossible for them to hear each other.
The sounds of the gunshots must have scared the cattle. Jack worried about a stampede, but he'd never seen any of the critters take out a fence, so he dismissed the idea.
"Rhett!" His throat burned as he hollered again.
Lightning streaked across the sky, blinding Jack for a moment, then thunder followed and he couldn't contain his startled yelp as his ears rang from the sound.
Or his shriek when six pairs of glowing yellow eyes appeared between him and the fence line.
"Shit!" Jack skidded to a halt and hoped he could steady his hands, and force himself to do what he had to do.
1) Is there a character in your books that you can't stand? (Antagonist for example) And what makes them someone you don't like?
I have a list of them. Most of the characters I can't stand are hateful, greedy, and have delusions of grandeur.
2) Are there misconceptions people have about your genre?
I can't speak for anyone else; people will think what that will. I can say that there are many wonderful people in this genre, readers, authors, publishers, beta readers, editors, publicity people, and more. I have never met such a great group of people. I focus on that, rather than anything negative.
3) Is there message in your novel that you hope readers grasp?
Most of my stories contain a redemption theme, that's a big one for me. In this one, it's not about redemption, however, it's about healing, and finding your strength.
4) How has your writing evolved since your first book?
Oh, goodness, it's evolved in many ways. I like to think it's improved 😀
5) One food you don't care if you never eat it again.
Again, I have a list, lol. I'm a picky eater, and I don't eat beef, chicken, pork…I'll eat fish, sometimes.
But I will never, ever eat wasabi again. Ick. Give me the hottest hot sauce available and okay. Wasabi? No.
I am a married mom of four who spends most of the day writing, either on stories or at the blog. I love to write as much as I love to read. I am generally quiet and laid back, choosing to let things slide off me rather than stick and irritate me.
And it's really hard trying to think of descriptives for myself, so I'll just let y'all e-mail me or comment at the blog if there's something specific you'd like to know, and spare you from reading a boring bio.
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School mask debate continues; call for Anne Arundel school board member to resign; Afghanistan concerns | READER COMMENTARY
Mandating masks is the right thing to do
The Maryland Board of Education made the right decision to mandate masks. We all have the same objective: get our kids back in school safely. The delta variant is too dangerous to not do everything we can to keep our kids safe as they go back to school. Masks have been shown to be effective and are strongly advocated by public health (as well as medical) professionals. I respect the reservations and rights of parents to decide what is best for their children, but sometimes protecting community health requires everyone to be part of the solution. This is one of those times. The aggressiveness of the delta variant should also lead Gov. Hogan to waive the 10-day waiting period for the legislature's committee to vote on the board's decision. Indeed, the urgency is such that, just like for polio, measles, mumps, chickenpox, etc., COVID vaccinations should be required for all students (and staff) who meet FDA eligibility criteria. The safety of our kids is too important to risk when we have good solutions.
Patrick McGregor, Millersville
Masks have no impact
To the letter writer who believes that parents who do not believe in masking kids in school should be reported to the FBI for child abuse, I say "My, that's a nice petty tyrant emerging inside of you. The Stasi would be proud." Maybe before you would have me arrested you should check your facts, if they even matter. There is not a single study, I mean actual data — not comments by "experts" — that shows masking is any way effective at nullifying the spread of COVID. In fact, some studies say the direct opposite. Should these epidemiologists be thrown in jail for child abuse for not finding your desired outcome? Many European countries, including Germany, the UK and those in Scandinavia do not require masks in schools. Should millions of parents in these countries be thrown in jail for child abuse? The WHO does not recommend masks in schools. Does that mean its entire staff should be thrown in jail for child abuse? Seems the U.S., under the guise of the CDC, which takes its orders from the teachers' unions, is one of the only countries recommending masks in schools.
Maybe before you demand the jailing of parents for child abuse you should get your facts straight. Or maybe not. What we have seen in this pandemic is the demand that you obey and not ask basic questions such as, "Can you show me the actual study that shows mask wearing actually decreases transmission?" Who knew asking simple questions of bureaucrats and union heads could get you thrown in jail? As Stalin once said, "Show me the man and I will show you the crime." Seems like many in the U.S. have that same police state mentality.
Chris Body, Annapolis
Frank should resign
We, the steering committee of the anti-racist community group One Pasadena, believe it is time for Corine Frank to step down from the Anne Arundel County Board of Education.
While Frank's problematic views have been public for years, she has recently received widespread attention due to her reprehensible "Back to School Fundraiser" scheduled for Sept. 16. Despite the name, this fundraiser benefits Frank's future political endeavors, not local schools. She has offered "sponsorships" including "Stop Masking Kids" for $500 and "Stop CRT" for $1,000.
We believe it is unethical for Frank to accept donations under the suggestion that there is a price point on her vote. She doesn't seem to understand the definition of Critical Race Theory (which is not taught in Anne Arundel County schools) but instead has latched onto a political bugaboo to benefit herself at the expense of sowing racial division among families in Pasadena.
We know that COVID disproportionately affects Black and Brown communities. Shortly after Frank began accepting donations to "Stop Masking Kids," she failed to wear a mask at a board meeting as required in all county buildings, telling the audience that "rules are different for different people." She then proposed that masks be optional in county schools. Fortunately, the state board has now mandated masks for the first 180 days.
People who reside elsewhere in the county may not be aware of how common racism is in Pasadena. We can attest to the problem from personal experience, but also by data. The most recent Maryland Hate Bias Report shows that the 21122 ZIP code experienced the most hate incidents in the county. The Capital has reported multiple incidents in the District 3 schools that Frank was elected to represent. Yet instead of attempting to reduce racism in her district, Frank is cynically capitalizing on misinformation while our local children suffer.
Corine Frank is bad for our schools, our children, our district, and for all of Anne Arundel County. She must resign.
Erica McFarland, Pasadena
Why didn't Americans leave Afghanistan sooner?
Why did so many Americans choose not to leave Afghanistan after Trump announced his agreement with the Taliban in February 2020, an agreement that stated the U.S. would leave Afghanistan by May 2021? What were they thinking? The State Department's Ross Wilson said, "We put out repeated warnings every three weeks to Americans going back to, I think, March or April, each one in stronger terms, 'Leave now. Leave immediately.' Never in my 40 years of working … at the State Department have I seen such strong language used. People chose not to leave." And, I am aware of Steven Miller's anti-refugee, anti-immigration policies that made it difficult to get a visa. However, that does not excuse the willful disregard of the repeated State Department warnings to leave by those who could leave.
John Matejko, West River


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Buffet breakfast at the hotel, lunch at a local restaurant.
Today morning, transfer from your hotel to the airport in Phuket for your flight to Bangkok.
On arrival in Bangkok, transfer and check in to the hotel.
The rest of the day is at leisure. You can opt for the city tour of Bangkok.
Explore the Chinatown food tour (Seat in coach).
Later, explore the Thai-Chinese route on an exclusive Bangkok Chinatown food tour with a local expert. Visit Shree Maha Mariamman Temple ", enjoy the street food and the night market. Learn about the stories of the Thai-Chinese community in Bangkok. Proceed to enjoy the nightlife in this city that never sleeps.
Post breakfast, the morning is at leisure to go shopping or explore the city on your own. You can opt for the Dreamworld with Snow town and 4D theatre.
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Meet Mira Nair
Darpan News Desk Darpan, 26 Feb, 2014 03:37 AM
Even though filmmaker Mira Nair is known for the timeliness of her movies, not even herself could predict how relevant her latest production would become. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a tale of a young Pakistani man who grows increasingly disenchanted with his adoptive country–the United States – hits close to home, given the recent events in Boston and the perpetrators inability to assimilate.
"I'm close to Boston, I went to school there for many years, so I feel it in a distinct way. But also feel the hatred and the racial profiling. It's unfortunate, but not surprising. We've seen this in our lives fairly often in the last decade," says the filmmaker.
The immigrant pledge is the unifying theme in Nair's body of work. Born in Bhubaneshwar in the Orissa province of India in 1957, Mira studied at Delhi University, than moved to the US at a young age to continue her studies and pursue sociology at Harvard University.
After a decade working in documentaries, Nair dipped her toe in drama. Her feature debut went on becoming the smash hit Salaam Bombay (1988). The film not only broke the language barrier (it made over $2 million in the subtitle-adverse US), but also gave Mira her only Oscar nomination to date (Best Foreign Language Film). Nair will come full circle when Salaam Bombay, the Musical hits Broadway, possibly at the end of next year.
Somewhat unexpectedly, the filmmaker decided that, instead of building a career in the comfort of her native country, she would do it in Hollywood. Her strategy led to a number of modest hits (The Namesake, Vanity Fair) and misses (Amelia, The Pérez Family). Alas, Nair has consistently put out a film every other year.
Every so often, Mira would bring her wide-ranging sensibilities back to Bollywood, as seen in Monsoon Wedding and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. Nair explains "People are complicated, filled with tenderness and brutality. And yet, so often we are shown the world as black and white. I make films to remind us we are many things and we must find our own way in this global world."
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an entirely different beast whatsoever.
A thriller spanning four continents, the film follows Pakistani born Changez (Riz Ahmed), an Ivy League-educated Wall Street financial analyst, who rediscovers his identity following the events of 9/11 and the treatment of Muslims after the attack. The movie combines Hollywood staples like Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland with Bollywood luminaries Om Puri and Shabana Azmi.
As a way to give back, Mira Nair created the Maisha Filmmaker's Laboratory in 2004. The goal is to support screenwriters and directors of East African and Indian origin. So far, the Uganda-based entity has received 500 emergent filmmakers and produced 29 short films. Funding is a major issue, but Nair believes empowering the youngsters to tell their own stories is well worth
the hustle.
This director and producer has won numerous awards, including a National Film Award and been nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was recognized as the India Abroad Person of the Year in 2007, than received the prestigious Padma Bhushan, which was presented to her by Indian President Pratibha Patil. Nair is married, has a son and resides in New York, Uganda and Kampala.
Q&A with Mira Nair
What do you try to achieve with your films?
I know both the Western and the Islamic world very intimately. What I'm desperate for is a dialogue, and for so long we've been subjected to a monologue. We never hear where the soldiers go when they fight for freedom and democracy, what was the place the bomb dropped on, what's the name of the Iraqi woman that just died. If you pay attention to the movies about the Vietnam war, the characters the US is fighting for, don't really exist. We need to know who are "the others" and realize how utterly human they are.
Can you share recent, powerful memories of India?
I experienced something very special in Delhi's twin city in Pakistan, Lahore. Both towns were laid in the same century, and have the same architecture. As an Indian, you don't get invited to cross the water often. I felt in love with the place, the warmth, largess of spirit, all the incredible artistic expression in every media. It was an unbelievable experience in a city you never read about in the newspaper. We desperately wanted to shoot The Reluctant Fundamentalist there, but we couldn't get the insurance to take the actors. In the end, we filmed the second unit in Lahore, and included the iconic streets and channel that goes across the city. But the interiors, the tea house and the riot scenes in the university were done in Delhi.
What is the biggest misconception about you?
I live in three places, including Kampala and New York. It's wonderful to be in Manhattan and know who is making what and how successful someone is. But in Uganda, none of this matters. It's a very humbling thing to be in a place, [where] no one knows about the movie business. That's why I don't engage on what people think of me.
Do you believe movies can change the world?
I had one very direct experience in that regard with Salaam Bombay. From the profits of the film, we created a trust fund for street kids in India. One life at the time, 5,000 a year have been impacted by what we are doing. Also, I hope my movies make you re-evaluate things you thought you knew.
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7 Oct, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 8-Bit armies / isometric viewpoint / petroglyth games / real time strategy / retro aesthetic by Mike
Real time strategy games on console don't tend to come around too often and, when they do, they have to battle against a control scheme so different to a mouse and keyboard. Petroglyth Games are the latest to try and bring a PC title across to the big black boxes of home consoles and, whilst 8-Bit Armies does get some things right, it doesn't quite come together.
The first stumbling block with console real time strategy games is how to handle the interface and controls. 8-Bit Armies takes a sensible approach with radial menus used to handle construction of units and structures. It's simple and effective. Units can be assigned to three different battalions which are mapped to your remaining face buttons. It does allow you to multitask although the default cursor speed feels a little slow. You can increase this in the options menu, luckily When it gets tricky and you need to fight on multiple fronts, the immediacy of the controls can feel welcome.
As the name suggests, 8-Bit Armies tries to strike a retro aesthetic. It's 2.5D in execution with units inhabiting a blocky appearance. There's a nice degree of charm to it with defeated units and destroyed structures exploding into glorious smithereens. They carry their own voice lines but they're all very generic and by the numbers. You have a female voice to notify you of completed construction or current attacks going across the map. It's good at keeping your mind on the action but it's more about function than flourish.
Your conflicts can be taken across two single-player campaigns and a co-op campaign. They offer a lot of content with each mission attempting to tackle a variety of objectives. The majority focus on destruction but sometimes you have to deal with surviving against the clock or focusing on individual structures or units. There's a sense of a continuing war although you only get this from mission briefings with no cut-scenes bridging one mission to another. It lacks in presentation but at least the core action remains enjoyable. The AI does seem very quick on unit production, though. Even in skirmishes, I don't quite feel we're starting from a level playing field.
Map selection is plentiful with some offering environmental hazards and varied landscapes. It's a world of perpetual sunshine and the maps feel intimate enough to cross with relative swiftness. They all carry a symmetrical appearance and the loading screens that accompany them do provide you with a little intel. They point out likely positions of the opposition bases, for starters. In the campaigns, this is pointed out more explicitly with stars on the map showing objectives.
8-Bit Armies does come with other qualities of life. The tech tree is always available for you to view which allows for some forward planning. Even better, the build menu shows the prerequisites so you know exactly what you need to build the more complex structures and gain access to more devastating units. It helps maintain a forward momentum, although I do miss being able to tweak game speed. Options feel fairly slim and limiting, on the whole.
There's three difficulty settings which seem to gate the additional objectives each mission tasks you with. It does incentivise you to tackle missions again with harder opposition but, if you remain on beginner AI, you can feel ill-equipped for some of the campaign's difficulty spikes. It makes seeking out mystery boxes on each level feel imperative to gain additional funds or units.
Once you get past the aesthetic, 8-Bit Armies doesn't really add much to the genre. In it's devotion to the Command and Conquer formula, it brings into focus some of the things this game lacks. Campaign levels are introduced with text briefings and, whilst they are connected, they lack a presentational pinnace.
On top of that, the two factions share a lot of units between them. There's little to distinguish the two besides the very, very late end of the tech tree. It progresses in a familiar way with bog-standard infantry giving way to more resilient tanks. There are other factions listed in the menus but, as far as I'm aware, 8-Bit Armies only gives you access to Renegades and Guardians. It's a shame as some of the other factions offer a little more deviation in their arsenal and could really help keep this game fresh.
My largest concern with 8-Bit Armies is how close it adheres to the inspiration. If you've played Command and Conquer, you know what to expect, right down to the tech trees and flow of a match. Having two similar factions takes away any chance to really spread their wings and be creative narratively and in gameplay. It's a nice nostalgic trip but one that's not likely to last.
6 Overall
+ Colourful aesthetic that lends itself well to destruction.
+ Familiar, nostalgic gameplay.
+ Plenty of single and multiplayer content.
+ Campaign goals that incentivise tackling harder challenges.
- Two available factions that don't differ much from each other.
- Campaign briefings offer an exclusively text-based story.
- AI can be quite brutal at times.
8-Bit Armies does well to tackle the control and interface issues that have marred the genre's translation to consoles. There's some good quality of life considerations that make the bread and butter gameplay enjoyable, if lacking in options. There's plenty of online and offline content but the lack of variety between the factions could lead to a stale, short-lived experience.
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ROME, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Italian-American carmaker Fiat Chrysler is planning a quick transition to the electric car market it is just entering and announced on Wednesday the goal of having electric vehicles make up at least 60 percent of its sales by the end of next year.
The news comes three weeks after Fiat Chrysler announced the acquisition of Engie Electric Power Systems, a micro-grid and energy storage company that will help in the development of electric vehicles as well as other low-environmental-impact services.
Fiat Chrysler is also in the midst of a merger with French rival Peugeot, which will create a new entity, Stellantis, once the merger terms are finalized next year. Based on current data, Stellantis will be the world's fourth-leading automaker measured as the number of vehicles produced. Even after the merger, Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot will continue selling cars under their traditional brand names.
In 2018, Fiat Chrysler vowed to spend at least 9 billion euros (10.6 billion U.S. dollars) on the development of electrified vehicles by 2022.
A year ago, Roberto Di Stefano, Fiat Chrysler's head of network development and e-mobility, told Xinhua the company was planning to use a range of electric and hybrid cars to gain a foothold in the Chinese market.
"Everyone knows that the real market for electric mobility will be China and then the rest of the world will follow," Di Stefano said.
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Like price elasticity of demand, price elasticity of supply is also dependent on many factors. Some of these factors are within the control of the organization whereas others may be beyond their control. Regardless of the control, if the management has knowledge about these factors, it can manage its supply better.
Capacity Addition: The theoretical model stated in the law of supply simply assumes that supply will be able to adjust up and down as and when the price changes. In doing so, the law of supply ignores the ground realities that are related with supply.
Consider for instance the fact that most manufactured goods today are mass produced in massive factories and most of these factories are working to their optimum levels. Hence, if supply has to be increased new capacity needs to be added i.e. new factories need to be built.
This obviously means that supply will remain stagnant for a while when capacity is stagnant and may then increase by leaps and bounds when additional capacity is introduced. This is an important determinant of elasticity of supply. Products where capacity can be easily added and reduced have an elastic supply whereas products where it is difficult to increase or decrease capacity have inelastic demand.
Related Infrastructure Growth: Industry is usually an interconnected supply chain. If one part of the supply chain grows, whereas the rest of the supply chain remains stagnant, the growth will be lopsided. This affects the elasticity of supply as well.
Consider the case of agriculture. Let's assume that farmers have got hold of a revolutionary technique with which they can increase productivity two fold. However, more production would mean more warehouses, more cold storages and even more transport vehicles. If this related infrastructure does not grow, producers may have to willfully cut down their production to avoid wastage. So, if the related infrastructure is easily scalable, then the supply of such a product will be highly elastic or else it will be inelastic.
Perishable vs. Non Perishable: Storage capacity is not the only issue. The supplier also needs to consider whether or not the goods that they hold are perishable or not. Perishable goods have a limited shelf life and the buyers know it.
The buyers can wait for some time and producers will have to lower the prices or take the losses that arise from wastage. The supply of perishable goods is therefore highly elastic since whatever has been produced has to be disposed off at the earliest. However, when it comes to non perishable goods it has been observed that the supply is usually inelastic since producers can hold on for as long as they have to. They are under no immediate compulsion to sell and hence the supply is inelastic.
Length of Production Period: The law of supply assumes that changes in price will produce an immediate effect in the quantity supplied. This may be theoretically correct. However, this is not possible in reality for many products.
Production is a time and resource consuming process. Hence, it cannot be scaled up or down with that much ease. In many cases, the time required for production stretches to many months or even years. Hence, there is a lagging effect on supply. This is another important determinant of the elasticity of supply. Products whose production times take longer have relatively inelastic supply compared to those products where the production time is less.
Marginal Cost of Production: The law of supply also assumes that the profitability of the supplier does not change with the number of units sold. That is not the case. In reality, we have something called the economies of scale and diseconomies of scale. This influences the marginal cost of production.
Hence, it may sometimes make economic sense to sell more whereas at other times, it may make more economic sense to sell less! Because producers consider marginal cost of production while making their decisions, it has become an important determinant in the elasticity of supply.
Long Run vs. Short Run: In the short run, the supply of all products is more or less inelastic. This is because there are many factors which producers cannot vary in the short run. However, in the long run, all the factors are variable and hence the supply of all products is completely elastic. Hence companies must be careful while making capital decisions.
The above mentioned list of factors is not exhaustive. However, using the reasoning behind these factors one can easily come up with more and more factors that may determine the price elasticity of supply.


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Q: Effect of cftransaction rollback along with multiple cftransaction commits Within a cftransaction block, what does rollback do when I have multiple commit actions?
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If there is an error caught, will the rollback cancel everything all the time, or only back to the last commit action?
Note that this is existing code written by others. I'm just trying to make sure it works as is and how.
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One Final Time - For Manny, For Uncle Sardo
Las Vegas, 2 May, 2015; Manny Pacquiao was one half of the richest sports event in history. His reported net earnings for 36 minutes of boxing was $120M – $55,555.55 per second, to be precise.
But let us call this the top and call Manny 'One in Seven Billion', who started from the bottom. Manny was born in a country where, today, 28 Million people survive on less than $1.25 per day.
"When he started, he had no muscle on him at all and I couldn't see him ever becoming a fighter."
Pacquiao was born amongst the Philippine rice fields. His family, sometimes, too poor to even afford rice. If he was born today, he would be one in four billion – surviving on less than $2 a day.
Uncle Sardo, perhaps by necessity, didn't give Manny rice – he gave him a chance to practice. A purpose, which challenged Manny to work toward a goal. He gave Manny an opportunity to work for his dream. The rest is history.
Tomorrow, Manny Pacquiao is set to fight for the very last time - an encore bout to draw the curtain on a most remarkable career. His real-life Rocky story, illuminated by unyielding persistence, prodigious courage, and equitable talent that lead him to dominate on the biggest stage.
Manny was born at the bottom, but he grew to a phenom whose reach transcends his sport. While Manny never carried with him the same charisma and bravado of Muhammed Ali, he instead carried a national identity that united a country, that perhaps still to this day, is still finding her true self.
But this is not about Manny. It is not about adorning demigods, for they are as rare as nature itself – too precious to be explained, better just to be admired.
This is about Uncle Sardo. More specifically, this is about the four billion people who today survive with few possessions, but hold more worth than they will ever know. This is about us. About humanity. About creating a world made for living - not just existing.
This is about an opportunity for children to dream big or to dream small. Just an opportunity to dream.
To start from the bottom and, if they desire it so, to strive to become teachers, doctors, leaders, achievers – an opportunity to dream in colour. To give anything less than opportunity is not good enough. For us to permit anything less is to deprive our world of nature itself.
Tomorrow, Team Pacquiao will cheer for their champion – for their 'One in Seven Billion'. Team Bradley, for theirs.
Today, we cheer for Uncle Sardo and take a moment to appreciate. Without Uncle Sardo, there would be no Manny. And tomorrow evening, Manny will make the Philippines stand still for one last time.
Today, Uncle Sardo stands an inspiration to others who might be born with less, but whose life is no less precious.


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BMW AG has appointed Alejandro Vukotich as senior vice president of its driver assistance and autonomous-driving development group, effective Jan. 1.
He had been vice president of automated driving for Audi AG until April, when he quit after 19 years with the company.
Vukotich will succeed Elmar Frickenstein, a 30-year veteran at BMW who will retire at the end of March. Frickenstein, has headed the department since it was created in 2016. He also ran the unit's precursor, which was called Electrics, Electronics and Driver Environment .
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Q: 2 column uniqueness on both way I have a friendship model that stores the id of 2 user.
user_id  friend_id
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  3          4

I would like to prevent the below entries. Where user 1 & 2 are already defined in a relationship. Therefore adding another entry such as 2 & 1 should be avoided.
user_id  friend_id
  1          2
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I have tried the following but not exactly what I wanted. It only ensures that a user can't add the same friend twice.
class Friendship < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
    belongs_to :friend, :class_name => "User"

    validates_uniqueness_of :user_id, scope: :friend_id
    validates_uniqueness_of :friend_id, scope: :user_id

    validate :check_friend_and_user # prevent user trying to add him/herself as friend.

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Detroit Tigers Previews
Behind Enemy Lines: Talking Cy Young and Youkilis flips with Over the Monster
Over the Monster's Matthew Collins answered a few burning questions on what the Tigers can expect from the series.
By Ashley MacLennan@90feetfromhome Apr 7, 2017, 10:00am EDT
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The first series of the year in Chicago was a literal wash, with one game postponed a day and the other moved to next month. Going into the four-game weekend series against the Boston Red Sox, Tigers fans are mostly just hoping to see some games get played.
If the Tigers do manage to get Mother Nature's blessing for the series, they'll be up against some formidable pitching. The Thursday postponement of Boston's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates has shuffled the expected pitching rotation, so the Tigers can still expect to see 2016 All-Star Steven Wright, lefty Eduardo Rodriguez, 2016 Cy Young winner Rick Porcello, and Chris Sale, who changed the color of his Sox this offseason.
We asked Matthew Collins of SBN's Red Sox blog Over the Monster what Tigers fans might be able to expect from the coming series.
BYB: We'll start from the top. Former Tigers' GM Dave Dombrowski has been helming the Red Sox ship as president of baseball operations for a little over a full season now. In Detroit he was famous for creating killer trades and deals seemingly out of thin air. As Red Sox fans how do you feel he's done so far?
OTM: I think this answer is kind of biased because most of the baseball opinions I find come on line, and those tend to skew towards prospect-hugging. With that in mind, I think there's a fair amount of negativity around Dombrowski. He inherited one of the best farm systems in baseball, and he's dealt a huge amount of talent and so far he hasn't gotten a ton of return on investment. Plus, there's the whole David Price situation to date. Personally, I think he's done fine and this is the time the Red Sox absolutely have to put their chips in. Overall, though, I'd say there's a slightly negative view of Dombrowski.
With David Ortiz gone, do you feel there's a hole in the order now, or are you fairly confident in the lineup going into the season?
I mean, there's no replacing David Ortiz. Even if you forget about the off-the-field stuff and what he means to the city and all of that, he was a monster in the middle of the lineup. He was their best hitter in 2016, and no one is likely to be that good in 2017. With that being said, this is still one of the best lineups in the league. They have star-level talent in six of their nine lineup spots, and there is at least a little upside at third base and catcher compared to expectations. They probably won't be quite as good as they were last year, but they should be right back near the top of the league.
Okay, so you had to know this was coming, but… Porcello winning the Cy Young. Do you think wins actually matter more than other stats as far as picking a winner? How did you guys feel about the backlash in the media over the win?
I think there are voters who still value wins, though I wouldn't agree with that thought process. With that being said, I thought the people who were up in arms over the result were overreacting. It wasn't just wins that got Porcello the award. He was outstanding all year, had the second best ERA+ in the AL with the league's best K/BB ratio. I wouldn't have voted for him (my vote would've been for Kluber) but there wasn't really a standout performer and there was a perfectly reasonable argument for Porcello even if you totally ignore the win totals.
Speaking of Porcello, how do you think Red Sox fans have reconciled to having him on the team after the infamous Youkilis fight of 2009?
I actually haven't heard that brought up since right after they acquired him. After last year, there are no complaints about Porcello. Red Sox fans, like anyone else, forget about your past once a player puts on the hometown uniform.
We'll be seeing 2016 All-Star Steven Wright go up against Rookie of the Year winner Michael Fulmer on Friday. What can we expect to see from the knuckleballer?
That's kind of a hard question to answer, because knuckleballers are inherently hard to predict. Some days, the knuckler just doesn't move as well. Overall, I'm expecting another solid year from Wright, and unless it's raining for his start he should be fine on Friday. Last year, he had acceptable control for a knuckleballer and actually had the second lowest contact rate on pitches in the zone right behind Max Scherzer. When he's on, his knuckleball is legitimately impossible to hit hard. There are going to be stinkers in the mix, and there's always a chance Friday could be one of those. But for any given start I'm fairly confident Wright can put together a quality start.
So far we've only seen one start out of Chris Sale with the Red Sox. He went seven innings during a 12-inning marathon against the Pirates, allowed no runs, and only three hits and a walk. Do you think he's a good fit for the rotation? What are your expectations of him this season?
Sale is a good fit for literally any rotation in baseball. Even before the trade I thought he was probably the third best pitcher in baseball, and he's easily in the top five. That being said, there is a tiny bit of doubt in the back of my mind because new pitchers always struggle in their first year with Boston. Even Pedro wasn't quite himself after coming over from Montreal. Still, there is no reason besides an apparent curse on the Red Sox to believe that Sale will be anything other than a superstar in 2017.
Which Tiger do you think will be the biggest thorn in the Red Sox side this weekend?
I was tempted to say Victor Martinez because he's been one of my favorites in the league since he was on the Red Sox, but I can't with good conscience say anyone besides Miguel Cabrera. He's one of the best hitters I've ever seen, and I feel like I'm going to be scared of him as a hitter until he's 65 years old.
Thanks to Matthew for stopping by! We're looking forward to seeing what the four game series brings for the Tigers. As long as it isn't more bad weather.


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